Middlezoy (6 m.  S.E. from Bridgwater, 4 from Athelney Station) has a church (ded. to the Holy Cross) which contains some interesting features.  The tower has double belfry windows (not triple, like Weston Zoyland).  The chancel is Dec. (the E. window being good), and has a large piscina under a foliated canopy.  There is a second piscina in the S. aisle, which likewise has a low side-window (cp.  Othery).  Note (1) the roof (with a few pendants); (2) the early Jacobean pulpit (dated 1606); (3) some carved seat ends; (4) Perp. screen; (5) old chest with three locks; (6) some fragments of ancient glass in the N. chapel; (7) a small brass (in the middle of the nave) to “Louis Chevaleir (sic) de Misiers,” a French gentleman serving in the English army, who was killed at Sedgemoor (here called “the battle of Weston").

Midford, a station on the S. & D. line to Bath.  There is a pretty view to be obtained from the platform, which overhangs a deep valley.  Some of the S. surroundings of Bath may be conveniently explored from here by good walkers.  Midford Castle, a modern antique, built in the shape of a triangle, stands just above the railway.

Midsomer Norton, a thriving and populous village 14 m.  S.E. from Bristol, with a station on the S. & D. line to Bath, and another at Welton on the G.W. branch to Bristol.  It obtains its name from a little rivulet, the Somer, which partly embraces the village.  Though situated on the same coalfield, it is a more pleasing-looking place than its neighbour Radstock.  The church is a not very inspiring example of modern Gothic (1830), and is said to have superseded a Norm, building.  The tower, which may embody some portions of the original structure, is in keeping with the rest of the church, though of greater age.  It contains a niched effigy of Charles II., who, though an unlikely church benefactor, is said to have given the bells.  Besides having a large output of coal, the locality does a brisk trade in boots and shoes.

MILBORNE PORT, a small town of some antiquity but of no modern importance, situated on a southern projection of the county jutting into Dorset.  The station (L. & S.W. main line) is 1-1/2 m.  N. of the town.  In pre-Reform days it was a pocket borough, returning two members.  It has now little save its quaint air of antiquity to make it remarkable.  The church, however, is interesting and will repay study.  Externally and internally it bears evidence of a very early origin.  The nave has been rebuilt and enlarged, but the tower and chancel should be carefully observed.  Without, note (1) fine Norm.  S. doorway; (2) base of tower with its peculiar stair turret; (3) Norm, panelling on S. side of chancel and blocked low side-window; (4) Norm, lancets in E. and N. wall of vestry; (5) traces of Norm, arcading on N. face of tower.  The original niches and stoups of the W. front will be found built into a small mortuary chapel at the N.W. corner of the churchyard.  Within, the tower